Bill Moran wrote: > With reference to: > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40067 > > I'm confused as to why this was marked bogus, and the message that > marked as such doesn't give much insight. > > It would seem to me that infinite recursion within PHP is a bug. > Shouldn't the interpreter catch this sort of thing before it > coredumps? Or is the design philosophy for PHP different than > that?
the way I understand it is that there is no decent way for the engine to tell the difference between a piece of recursive code that will complete and a piece of recursive code that will never complete ... so the only sane solution is to leave it up to user land code to make sure the recursive loop is not infinite. put another way if the engine catches/stops what it *thinks* is an infinite loop then how would stopping the loop at an arbitrary location be any better than dumping core? I believe this is why the bug was marked as bogus - sorry I can't explain it any better. > > If anyone can point me to a online explanation for this or other > resource, I'd be happy to read up a bit. More than happy to understand > why I'm wrong, but right now I feel as if this problem is getting the > brush-off. > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
